fireb0rn reacts to the Hollow Knight Any% No Major Glitches TAS 

If you'd like to see more of this, check out ConstructiveCynicism, the person who made the TAS! YT: ru-vid.com/show-UCt68_jFxHpPJXDhw8U_LgWA Twitch: www.twitch.tv/constructivecynicism

Watcher knight fight looked like damage was dealt in time with music. That was nuts

My favourite part of this TAS was by far the Uumuu fight, guiding that projectile all the way down to the fight is just so crazy

The pause right before THK was actually the only error that we know of for the TAS, they didn't realize they did that and TAS'd the whole THK fight before realizing, and didn't want to redo it (the RNG manipulation probably took a while)

Man TAS is such a good speed runner, he speedruns everything

I love how happy you get when you see one of your speedrun skips/tactics in anyone else's run

I find it fascinating how far you can push speedruns with tas, definitely was entertaining to see your reaction to it too

Tiny detail I appreciated was that when dying for shade skip, he timed a vengeful spirit to kill the bug he died to, picking up 3 geo in the process.

i like how lem always beats you back to his shop regardless of how fast you are. lem is faster then even this TAS. sorta' reminds me of the fact that Cornifer always seemingly beats you to any area you find him in, and apparently with enough time to do some exploring and make a map. there two are the true gods of hollow knight lmao.

22:12 Fireborn: It's time for pogaxe. Tas: We don't do that here.

For the wait before THK: CC said he just holded cdash for 1 second too long and realized only after the THK fight. Considering he took 8 hours to do that he preferred to keep that in. (just changing the time he over holded cdash would change the rng manipulation for the THK fight and he would have to change it all)

29:25 that is the most satisfying climb ive ever seen

Me: _Struggles against Mantis Lords_ The Knight according to the lore:

It's not tas he just has a good gaming chair and foot rest

Oh man it's so cool to watch TAS runs with speedrunner commentary over them because I never have any idea like *why* the TAS is as cool as it is, and runners are so crazy knowledgable about the time saves and how they compare to player runs!!

"It's been a while since I speedran this category" Fire is a TAS confirmed.

From the moment he gets mantis claw, this run is just wall-cling storage after wall-cling storage after wall-cling storage...

OK time for acid skip using cdash... or may be not :O And fire's reaction video is always so cute to watch XD

13:12 maybe this has already been said, but I think the reason it looks like he’s holding left and right at the same time is because most videos on RU-vid run at 30 FPS while hollow knight likely runs at 60 FPS. So the fastest way to move left and right is to essentially press it once every other frame which makes it look like it’s being held down because of RU-vid’s slower frame rate

Smh fire everyone knows this is just leaked footage of bug's WR any% speedrun.

You know you've made a good TAS when a speedrunner watching it asks what the hell is going on.

The amount of effort that you have to put into a TAS is unbelievable to me

The genuine joy you got when the Beast Den grub got ignored had me dying.

Got this game about a few weeks ago and am facing down radiance in my first ever playthrough. This game is amazing and I even got my 9 year old brother into it. He beat the hollow knight with 63% completion after 41 hours.

17:00 Dude all of his attacks being PERFECTLY in time with the music is so unbelievably satisfying. I know absolutely nothing about Hollow Knight speedrunning, but this video is amazing and that satisfying fight make it more amazing.

28:18 Skurry actually explained that during the City of Tears part, he got wall cling storage right before the screen transition, and you actually keep wall cling storage when going through vertical transitions, that's why he was able to wall cling storage without touching anything

Wall cling makes the knight really sound like a bug

Wooo more tas reactions shroomPog

About the wait on the CD in the Hollow Knight Room, Constructive Cynicism confirmed that this was a mistake that he only noticed after he had already spent hours on doing the HK fight, so he would've had to completely redo it due to this completely changing the RNG

The attacks lined up perfectly with the music at the watcher knights fight at 17:04-17:07, neat!

that pause at the end was a the only mistake in the TAS and constructive cynthisism had to write the whole THK fight again to fix that

31:33 I was watching BlueSR’s reaction and he pointed out that the reason there was that wait during c-dash is because constructivecynicism told him that part was the only mistake in TAS that he’s aware of.

Incredible, unbelievable, tremendous, stunning, awe-inspiring, staggering, astonishingly formidable, improbable, sublime, utterly extreme, magnificent, wonderful, marvellous, spectacular, remarkable, phenomenal, prodigious, miraculous, amazing, breathtaking.... T.A.S.

Honestly all this Tas has proven for me is just how insane Pest’s Any% time is

Watching this after a long stressful day at work makes it all worth it. HK is one of my few comfort games and you're one of my favorite content creators and speedrunners, so that's great to have a reaction video from you. Thank you!

06:00 you know its good content, when the normal jump look like mantis claw jumps

I’d love to see a TAS of the ismas tear route, just to see how optimized it could be

17:03 can we appreciate that these hits were in perfect time with the music

insane how it skips both required uses of CD with wall cling storage, but still gets it for the rule set lmao. if those wall clings ever get a human set up you can skip both ismas and cd.

BlueSR also posted a reaction and it was revealed there that the wait at the entrance to the egg was a straight-up mistake and it only didn't get fixed because doing so would require redoing the entire bossfight because the RNG would be different

The walkling storage (i think thats how you type that) is done by grabing the wall 1 frame later jump away from it the next frame grab it, and the next frame dash from it YES it is done in 4 frames

If you’re a TAS, Silksong already exists. (but in all seriousness, this was wild! The nail knock back strategy alone 😳)

love hearing your commentary! its really cool seeing you explain and comment on this TAS!

Yes please do more TAS videos! I love seeing all the tricks and routing and it’s especially nice to have you explain it to us instead of being left in confusion just watching the original footage

This is a freaking new level amazing. Jeez. uumu strat is mindblowing

glad to see this run getting more coverage! the techniques in it are just so goddamn cool

That Uumuu fight was insane

Wall cling storage is this game's equivalent of the BLJ

really enjoyed that one and i love your commentary. thanks for keeping making these

really fun to watch this. I always wonder if there's things found or executed in a TAS that players then begin to work on for their runs as well.

Watched this this morning and really enjoyed your narrative. I'm not very good at Hollow Knight, but I've been trying to stick it out and have really enjoyed your videos and have been just plain amazed with the precision of your movement and your skill on the speed runs (especially with the hunters), so anyway, really enjoyed seeing how impressed you were with this. Thanks for all the entertainment!

You just took a fucking drink at the same time that i did. Bro that was a how moment

7:28 there was no extra hit snuck in on mossknight. Mossknight takes 50dmg to kill, a Vengeful Spirit is 15 and a nail strike is 5 at that stage in the game. That particular Mossknight was hit with one nail, one VS which hit once, and one VS which hit twice. The Knight has the same soul level at 7:05 as it does after the Mossknight fight. The Knight makes 6 nail hits between these times.

one thing the TAS missed is the Nail Animation Cancel up pogo. If you go left and right really quickly at the same time, it cancels the nail swing animation and boosts your swing speed.

I watched Blue react to the TAS. So seeing you react to it as well will be a treat for sure!

Id definitely enjoy seeing u check out more Tas’s, especially ones for longer speed runs, super curious just how much time could be shaved off the more lengthy runs.

Imagine living just to contain the infection and a random two foot knight comes along and does all this in less than half an hour

It's awesome that the HK community is getting into TASing, I can't wait to see where this goes

“This is gonna be Pest in 2022 if silk song doesn’t release by the way” *Laughs in 2024 with no silksong*

The reason for the pause on that last cdash is quite simple: CC miscounted frames by 10 and decided not to change it because he was tired of dealing with different rng seeds for THK 😅

Can't wait to see True Ending or APB TAS runs!

why does TAS get such good rng, he must just have dream luck

I like how Fire addresses TASes when talking about precise and risky strats, as if they were watching this and learning 😆

I love TAS runs. They are so impressive, just an eye porn. Also I literally watched this TAS recently, haha. So I just rewatch it with Your commentary. Tbh, Your commentary on this videos are very nice. Many people don't get what's going on when watching speedruns, so they ask the runner. And TAS is going to do even more crazy stuff. Thanks to people, often in marathons, explainign what's going on, I have some understanding on the matter. Like they tell why they do that, what they do and how is this possible, why the game makes it so etc. You always explain this stuff too, but not just that. You are generally good at commenting over these vids. Also I have a weird feeling that I've seen Your video (this one)... I remember Your commentary... though RU-vid didn't show the red bar on it, which appears on videos You've seen (because it's time stamp of where You stopped watching last time). Weird... But no, You probably said that somewhere else, because I remember just watching it without the comentary after the TAS got the weird sound effect with wall cling storage and I don't remember You saying anything about this. Also it's funny that I'm watching Your vids in reverse order (newest to oldest), because I've seen You doing the Mantis damage You at the Mantis Claw and You just said that it's probably the new strat in the speedruns now, but You havent's seen them Yourself yet. Haha, that's really funny. Going back to the past like that. Oh god. I've seen this multiple time, but never realized that in few frames when You focus after defeating the Holow Knight, Radiance appears briefly (silhouette made of light). That's a nice detail, lol.

Great video! It was very funny!

I love how at the beginning of the washer knights fight the hits are synchronized to the music

This video is pretty old, but at around 22:35 you asked how the TAS got around the laser, the laser actually loses its hit box shortly before the animation stops, so you can miss the laser. Happened to me the other day going through crystal peaks!

TAS stuff starting to happen gets me excited for someone to route and set up the Isma's Tear route.

TASes are super fun to watch

17:04 the fact that they attacked that's Watcher Knight and it sounded the same as the music in background feels so good

I want to see a TAS of the Isma's Tear route tbh

theres the p5 tas if you wanna react to that too. i love when high profile people in the community reacts to stuff since (usually) they give good insight into whats going on while still not being a 2 hour long commentated version (even tho i also watched that :D )

me: alright cant wait for fire’s in depth commentary and analysis! fire: what the hell is happening

Amazing video. I would really like to see a TAS in P5, smacking the bosses so fast

Loved being able to see the hornet fight. Lmao 🤣 🤣

The wcs used here is cling cling storage, and involves clinging the wall for a frame, holding away from the wall for 4 frames, holding back towards the wall for a frame, then holding away for a frame (and usually dashing). There's a faster version now where you dont actually need to cling the wall but that wasn't used in this run afaik.

How he gets wallcling storage everywhere is he clings to a wall, unclings, and clings again, which was found not too long ago and cannot possibly be performed by humans as it is within 2 frames

Silksong wait is the greatest push for new speedrun strats in the HK community

The zoom in on hornet 1 is hilarious 🤣

I LOVE watching TASses and specifically have a soft spot for HK TASses! Could you please react to ''[TAS] Hollow Knight: Pantheon of Hollownest Real Time in 14:56'' Posted to youtube by Cuber Knight? I think that run is insane and I think you and your viewers would love it!

I really wanted to see a video about this from you

The movement leading up to the crystal heart was blindingly fast. TAS is so nutty

Uumuu fight absolutely blew my mind. I've never seen that. It's crazy how the projectiles hit absolutely nothing and finally got Uumuu

BlueSR also has a video on this, with more explanations for the wall cling storages

When he jumps off the imaginary wall from the cling storage when getting the dream nail it makes me wish I was a robot.

Cyn is amazing and this run is... both inspirational and absolutely mesmerizing. Time to learn any% I guess.

We actually had a fireball dialogue skip discussion for hornet 1 on the Speedrunning forums of the main HK discord and the conclusion was that for a player the fireball damage decreased fight time much more than the mash time. I wonder if consistently getting her stuck makes the difference.

I play computer games since the eighties (floppy disc, CGA monitor, yeah!), but this... this is a completely new dimension. Fascinating. And while watching I realize, what absolute masterpiece this game is.

Idk what's more impressive, this TAS run, or the fact that Pest's WR run is only 10% away from perfect. The HK speed running community is amazing!! Thanks Fire!!

The Knight as soon as it gets Claw: "I am buzzsaw" Also, what the hell happened at 25:26

The deal with the wallcling storage is that you can get it off of any wall in 4 consecutive frame perfect inputs, which somehow gives you wcs. It's not RTA viable (it's possible though), but this is a TAS so yeah. Also holding left-right and letting go of left-right every other frame gives you a lot less falling speed of sliding off the wall, which gives you more horizontal movement. (And yea, downwards transitions can store wcs)

I would love to see a TAS run of Ismas tear route to find out if it's faster or not, it could possibly change the Any% speedruns forever

This TAS guy is pretty good, he should stream so we can see him speed running

fireborn reacting to this is like really good chess youtubers reacting to chess AI battles

I believe the wait right before THK fight might be part of the set RNG for the tas. I've seen some tas do some different movement just for the correct RNG in other games for the speedrun.

It'd be very interesting to see a TAS of the Isma's Amy% NMG Route.

Watched the whole thing and I can only imagine how long it took to put together such a perfect sequence of inputs. Incredible. This may have been answered already but at 30:42 when the knight drops down it cuts straight to Cdash into the stag station, is there a way to skip the fake bench room or did something happen with the stream?

Yo fire you are so good at the game dude

Soooo fire, remember when you said you would do that if Silksong didnt released ?

This makes me wonder what time a TAS could get with Moglar5k's isma's tear route